Power Mac - Two hard drives in Powerpc

alphonse123 · alphonse123 #1 (**permalink**)

02-15-2008, 11:59 PM

I have a Power pc G4, dual 450mhz wit 1 gb of ram. it only came with 30gb of memory in hard drive so i decided to add another 30gb from an old mac i had.
So i formatted both to Tiger OS X one at a time, but then when both plugged in at the same time in the tower, the comp just crashes or not work at all. Is there a way around this ? i have plugged both drives to motherboard and also to powersupply. HELpp

baggss · baggss #2 (**permalink**)

02-16-2008, 01:28 AM

Did you set the drives as Master/Slave as appropriate?

louishen · louishen #3 (**permalink**)

02-16-2008, 07:13 AM

You will have to look up the support site for each hard disk to find out how to set one as a slave (you might get lucky and the settings might be printed on a disk sticker one one of the drives.

It doesn't really matter which one is the slave, but assume that both are set as master at the mo

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alphonse123 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 15, 2008 Posts: 4	02-15-2008, 11:59 PM I have a Power pc G4, dual 450mhz wit 1 gb of ram. it only came with 30gb of memory in hard drive so i decided to add another 30gb from an old mac i had. So i formatted both to Tiger OS X one at a time, but then when both plugged in at the same time in the tower, the comp just crashes or not work at all. Is there a way around this ? i have plugged both drives to motherboard and also to powersupply. HELpp
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Member Since: Oct 10, 2004 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 10,306 Mac Specs: 27" 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac-13" C2D Macbook-OSX 18.8.2-64Gb iPad 2-32 Gb iPhone 5-ATV 2-14Tb of Storage	02-16-2008, 01:28 AM Did you set the drives as Master/Slave as appropriate?
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